"Valerie Eliot Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 19269 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize-winning poet, T. S. Eliot. She was a major stockholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings. The daughter of an insurance manager in Leeds, she was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, where she was reputed to have told her headteacher that she knew precisely what she wanted to become: secretary to TS Eliot. Valerie married Eliot, almost 40"
"died in Orange, New Jersey. Ethel Lynn Beers Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"". Ethelinda Eliot was born in Goshen, New York on January 13, 1827. She was a descendant of Puritan missionary John Eliot. When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as ""Ethel Lynn"" because she thought her last name was too ""tame and commonplace"". At age 19, she married William H. Beers and appended her married name to"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"Alexander Eliot Alexander Eliot (April 28, 1919 – April 23, 2015) was an American writer born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, best known for his works on spirituality and myth. He is the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr., the grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot, and the great-grandson of Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard for fifty years. Eliot was the art editor of ""Time"" magazine from 1945 to 1960. His many books include ""“The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters, and Other”"", ""“The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred, and Scientific Mythologies”"", and ""“The Timeless Myths: How Ancient Legends Influence the Modern"
"Ethel Lynn Beers Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"". Ethelinda Eliot was born in Goshen, New York on January 13, 1827. She was a descendant of Puritan missionary John Eliot. When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as ""Ethel Lynn"" because she thought her last name was too ""tame and commonplace"". At age 19, she married William H. Beers and appended her married name to her poems. Her most famous"
"Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including ""The Waste Land"" (1922), ""The Hollow Men"" (1925), ""Ash Wednesday"" (1930), and ""Four Quartets"" (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly ""Murder in the Cathedral"" (1935) and ""The Cocktail Party"" (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, ""for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"". The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family with roots in Old and New England. Thomas Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian"
"parish of Great Gidding. The legacy of the Anglican community at Little Gidding inspired American-English poet, T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) in his poem entitled ""Little Gidding"", the final of four long poems that comprise the collection ""Four Quartets"" (1945). Eliot, a convert to Anglicanism who identified as an Anglo-Catholic and was a life member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr, visited Little Gidding church on 25 May 1936. This was six years before he published his poem. Eliot, a noted critic, supposedly had been asked to read a play regarding Charles I visiting the community. In the poem"
"as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irishman so honoured. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize: these works include ""The Tower"" (1928) and ""The Winding Stair and Other Poems"" (1929). In addition to W. B. Yeats other important early modernist poets were the American poets T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972). Eliot became a British citizen in 1927 but was born and"
"which became one of the most popular exhibits. The poet T. S. Eliot, who was born and raised in St. Louis, visited and explored the Village. Inspired by their tribal dance and others, he wrote the short story, ""The Man Who Was King"" (1905). In 1905, 50 tribespeople were on display at a Brooklyn, New York amusement park for the summer, ending in the custody of the unscrupulous Truman K. Hunt, a showman ""on the run across America with the tribe in tow."" During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Igorots fought against Japan. Donald Blackburn's World War II guerrilla"
"taught school at the nearby Mary Institute Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot) was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1888. The Eliot family, including his mother Charlotte, his father Henry and T.S.'s six other siblings resided at 2635 Locust Street in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot attended Smith Academy and then furthered his education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When T.S. was at Harvard, Charlotte sent him the following letter: ""I hope in your literary work you will receive early the recognition I strove for and failed. I should so have loved a college course, but was obliged to teach"
"in 1918 by Robert Bridges. Free verse and other stylistic innovations came to the forefront in this era, with which T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were especially associated. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born American, migrated to England in 1914, and he was ""arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century."" He produced some of the best-known poems in the English language, including ""The Waste Land"" (1922) and ""Four Quartets"" (1935–1942). The Georgian poets like Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) and John Masefield (1878–1967, Poet Laureate from 1930) maintained a more conservative approach to poetry"
"out of this post-war disillusionment is T. S. Eliot's epic ""The Waste Land"" (1922). Eliot was an American poet who had been living in London for some time. Although he was never formally associated with the Imagist group, his work was admired by Pound, who, in 1915, helped him publish ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"", which brought him to prominence. When Eliot had completed his original draft of a long poem based on both the disintegration of his personal life and mental stability, and the culture around him, he gave the manuscript, provisionally titled ""He Do the Police"
"T. S. Eliot, and Bernard Lewis into Turkish. Ecevit, who also studied at the American Robert College, one of the most prestigious high schools in Istanbul, was successful in these literary endeavors despite never having graduated from a university, a fact that also prevented him from ever running for the Presidency of the Turkish Republic. Ecevit was hospitalized in Ankara and placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage on 18 May 2006, which struck him after he attended a friend's funeral. He died there from respiratory failure on 5 November 2006 at 20:40 (UTC), aged 81."
"T.S. Eliot's poem as an elegy for a dead (male) friend, Jean Verdenal. At the instance of Eliot's solicitors, it was suppressed and only republished in 1969, four years after Eliot's death. John Peter (novelist) John Desmond Peter (1921–1983) was an English literature scholar, essayist, and novelist born in South Africa. He studied law at the University of South Africa, and English literature at Cambridge University, later obtaining his Ph.D. from Rhodes University. Peter came to Canada in 1950 and taught English at the University of Manitoba for eleven years. He joined the Victoria College Department of English in 1961."
"poet. He had completed ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" in 1911, the poem that was to make his name when it was published in Chicago in 1915, and he saw remaining in England as a way to escape his parents' plans for him. When he was in his 60s, Eliot wrote that he was immature and timid at the time, and was probably in love with Emily Hale, a Bostonian he had had a relationship with in the United States. What he wanted from Haigh-Wood, he said, was a flirtation. But a meeting with the American poet Ezra"
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"of symbolist elements, where an entire philosophical position is summed up by the manifestation of a single image. For example, the narrator says that on the journey they saw ""three trees against a low sky""; the single image of the three trees implies the historical future (the crucifixion) and the spiritual truth of the future (the skies lowered and heaven opened). Journey of the Magi Journey of the Magi is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively"
"poem was in the habit of rendering his name as ""T. Stearns Eliot,"" very similar in form to that of J. Alfred Prufrock. It is suggested that the name ""Prufrock"" came from Eliot's youth in St. Louis, Missouri, where the Prufrock-Litton Company, a large furniture store, occupied one city block downtown at 420–422 North Fourth Street. In a 1950 letter, Eliot said, ""I did not have, at the time of writing the poem, and have not yet recovered, any recollection of having acquired this name in any way, but I think that it must be assumed that I did, and"
"They returned to Eliot's home city of Saint Louis, Missouri where they worked and reared their family. They had five daughters and two sons: Ada (Eliot) Sheffield, born in 1869; Margaret Dawes Eliot, born in 1871; Charlotte (Eliot) Smith, born in 1874; Marian Cushing Eliot, born in 1877; Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., born in 1879; Theodora Sterling Eliot, born in 1885 but died in infancy, and Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot), born in 1888. Charlotte's youngest child inherited his mother's literary skills and became the poet known as T. S. Eliot. In the 1870s when her husband hit bankruptcy, Charlotte"
"his concern over aging. Like many of Eliot's poems, ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" makes numerous allusions to other works, which are often symbolic themselves. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"", commonly known as ""Prufrock"", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing ""Prufrock"" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of ""Poetry: A Magazine of Verse"" at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or"
"stating in his later Library of Congress interview and recordings that he expected jazz pianist Tony Jackson would attend and win a jazz piano competition at the Exposition. Morton said he was ""quite disgusted"" to later learn that Jackson had not attended either, and that the competition had been won instead by Alfred Wilson; Morton considered himself a better pianist than Wilson. The poet T. S. Eliot, who was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, visited the Igorot Village held in the Philippine Exposition section of the St. Louis World's Fair. Several months after the closing of the World's"
"Journey of the Magi Journey of the Magi is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively titled ""Ariel poems"" and released by British publishing house Faber and Gwyer (later, Faber and Faber). Published in August 1927, ""Journey of the Magi"" was the eighth in the series and was accompanied by illustrations drawn by American-born avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954). The poems, including ""Journey of the Magi"", were later published in both editions of Eliot's collected"
"George Eliot. George Augustus Simcox and William Henry Simcox were her brothers. Edith Simcox Edith Jemima Simcox (21 August 1844 – 15 September 1901) was a British writer, trade union activist, and early feminist. She began her writing career as a reviewer, publishing criticism under the pseudonym ""H. Lawrenny,"" including an important review of the ""Memoir of Jane Austen"" (1870). In 1875 she and Emma Paterson became the first women to attend the Trades Union Congress as delegates. She lived at 60 Dean Street, London. From 1879-1882 she was a member of the London School Board representing Westminster. A lesbian,"
"Preludes (poem) ""Preludes"" is a poem by T. S. Eliot, composed between 1910 and 1911. It is in turns literal and impressionistic, exploring the sordid and solitary existences of the spiritually moiled as they play out against the backdrop of the drab modern city. In essence, it is four poems rather than one, and it is duly labelled as such. Composed over the course of four years in France and the United States, it comes to just 54 lines. Its four parts are uneven, irregular and written in free verse symptomatic of the speaker's stream of consciousness. Part I is"
"The Hollow Men ""The Hollow Men"" (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare ""Gerontion""), the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics argue, Eliot's own failed marriage (Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot might have been having an affair with Bertrand Russell). The poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines of which the last four are ""probably the most quoted lines of"
"A Song for Simeon ""A Song for Simeon"" is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the ""Ariel poems"" series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. ""A Song for Simeon"" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poems, including ""A Song for Simeon"", were later published in both the 1936 and 1963 editions of Eliot's collected poems. In 1927, Eliot had converted to Anglo-Catholicism and his poetry, starting"
"T. S. Eliot and Ted Hughes, and Seamus Heaney, who wrote in a poem of tribute: <poem> ...those Cumbrian phonetics cracked like a plaited whip until the slack, nostalgic ambler in me trotted on the paved margin of my own black pool — Dublin black pool, dubh linn ...that is yours and mine as well </poem> Other aspects of Nicholson include his social awareness as a champion of the working class. (He worked as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association.) His poem ""Windscale"" about a 1957 nuclear accident has become something of an environmentalists' anthem. <poem> The toadstool towers"
"T.S. Eliot was especially fond of the poem 'Thirty Bob a Week' (In ""Ballads and Songs"" (1894)). Davidson's poem ""In the Isle of Dogs"", for example, is a clear intertext of later poems such as Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" and Stevens' ""The Idea of Order at Key West"". He translated: John Davidson (poet) John Davidson (11 April 1857 – 23 March 1909) was a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German. In 1909, financial difficulties, as well as physical and mental health problems, led to his suicide. He was"
"speaker takes his farewell from the Lady before going abroad; she wonders why they have not become friends, asks him to write to her and describes her melancholy, solitary fate; in the close the speaker thinks of the Lady possibly dying and questions his behavior towards her. Like many of Eliot's early poems, ""Portrait of a Lady"" shows heavy influence from Jules Laforgue. For example, in 'Another Complaint of my Lord Pierrot', Laforgue has the lines: While Eliot has the lines: Portrait of a Lady (poem) ""Portrait of a Lady"" is a poem by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965),"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"", commonly known as ""Prufrock"", is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing ""Prufrock"" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of ""Poetry: A Magazine of Verse"" at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled ""Prufrock and Other Observations"" in 1917. At the time of its publication, Prufrock was considered outlandish, but is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural"
"within the full sweep of more traditional modern English-language verse, a peer of Hardy and Yeats. But from Whitman and Dickinson the outlines of a distinctively new organic poetic tradition, less indebted to English formalism than Frost's work, were clear to see, and they would come to full fruition in the 1910s and '20s. This new idiom, combined with a study of 19th-century French poetry, formed the basis of American input into 20th-century English-language poetic modernism. Ezra Pound (1885–1972) and T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) were the leading figures at the time, with their rejection of traditional poetic form and meter"
"Eliot left his family home in St. Louis, Missouri, to go to Harvard, in New England. From there he moved to Europe and stayed in Germany and France. When World War I began, he moved to Oxford, United Kingdom. He gained British citizenship and joined the Church of England. Terry Gilliam is an American-born British director and member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. Katrina Leskanich is an American musician, author and former lead singer of British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Boris Johnson was the New York-born British foreign secretary, as well as a journalist and former"
"bought the 700 acres estate in 1848 and became Lord of the Manor of Little Gidding. He is buried in the graveyard. In the 20th century, the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was inspired by the legacy of the religious community at Little Gidding. He incorporated historical elements and symbols of it into his long poem, ""Little Gidding,"" as part of his collection ""Four Quartets"" (1945). At the time of the Domesday Book, the only entry for this area was ""Geddinge"", indicating that the three parishes of Little Gidding, Great Gidding and Steeple Gidding were separated later. Gidding, then owned"